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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Thursday, the seventh of May. The OECDS recommending
New Zealand's pension eligibility system should automatically match life expectancy.
Its latest economic survey warns under current policy settings, our
aging population could push pension and health costs to five
(00:24):
percent of GDP by twenty sixty. Louis de Malo says
New Zealand's settings differ from other OECD countries.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
They are already moving in the direction of linking those
two things, the passional voyage to changes in life expectancy,
but New Zealand still has a passional eligibility age at
sixty five with no automatic adjustment.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
International visitors may soon have to pay to access conservation land,
a just announced government bills described as the most significant
conservation reform in nearly forty years. Senior political reporter Azaria
Howell has.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The bill lays the groundwork for reinvesting revenue from charging
international tourists, estimated at about sixty million dollars a year,
back into conservation land. It also speeds up the Department
of Conservations signing off leases and permits conservation Minister Tamil
Portsucker says outdated rules and slow processes have created unnecessary
(01:22):
cost and delay.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop says he wants a post completion
review of Auckland City rail Link project, including its history,
business cases and costs. Former project boss Shawn Sweeney claims
it could have cost half had designed changes been made Earlier.
Estimate sawed to five point five billion dollars from an
initial three point four billion, put down to inflation, scope
(01:48):
changes and the COVID pandemic. An elderly victim of a
random stabbing in West Auckland's Atranui this week has a
long recovery. Two people were arrested on chie Tuesday after
over I should say multiple stabbings in separate incidents, Emily
Ancel reports.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
A man told The Herald his seventy year old father
was attacked as he walked out of Vanui pharmacy. He's
been in hospital since with stitches and a two centimeter wound.
Another person received non life threatening stab wounds on Swanson
Road the same day, not believed to be linked.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Kaitaki only narrowly escaped disaster three years ago when the
inter Island a fairy lost power in Cookstrait. The Transport
Accident Investigation Commissions concluded an aged out rubber joint burst,
leaving the ship powerless in a dangerous waterway. Mass rescue
preparations involved ships, military helicopters and private citizens. Chief Commissioner
(02:49):
Simon Clark says just one of two anchors worked.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
If the ship had continued to drift ashore and not
been arrested by sankas a serious marine casualty event was
almost certain to follow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Thousands of senior Health en Z doctors are getting an
average five point nine percent pay rise, ending almost two
years of bargaining. Just Sport and Steve Lancaster has ascended
to New Zealand Rugby's top job. The former Crusader's Locke
has been confirmed as the chief executive after serving in
an interim capacity since Mark Robinson left in December. Plenty
(03:24):
of praise for fast bowlers Carl Jamison and Willow Rourke's
work ethic as they make their return to the black
Caps test squad for their looming trip to Ireland and England.
Rising young Gold Coast shooter Preston Lagassic is the latest
addition to the New Zealand Breakers roster for next season
in basketball z NBL. That is your latest news fix.
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We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News Talks ZB newsroom.
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